Synonyms of the word

joyous

• adj. Full of joy; happy.

ecstatic

• adj. Feeling or characterized by ecstasy.
• adj. Extremely happy.
• adj. Relating to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion.
• n. (in the plural) Transports of delight; words or actions performed in a state of ecstasy.

elated

• adj. Extremely happy and excited; delighted; pleased.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of elate.

enraptured

• v. simple past tense and past participle of enrapture.
• adj. Marked by fondness; filled with delight.

festal

• adj. festive, relating to a festival or feast.

festive

• adj. Having the atmosphere, decoration, or attitude of a festival, holiday, or celebration.
• adj. In the mood to celebrate.

gay

• adj. (dated) Happy, joyful, and lively.
• adj. (dated) Festive, bright, or colourful.
• adj. (obsolete) Sexually promiscuous (of either gender).
• adj. Homosexual.
• adj. A pejorative.
• adj. (of a dog's tail) Upright or curved over the back.
• n. (chiefly in plural or attributive) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual; see also lesbian.
• n. (obsolete) An ornament.
• v. (transitive, dated, uncommon) To make happy or cheerful.
• v. (transitive, uncommon) To cause (an issue, especially AIDS) to be associated with homosexual people.
• n. The letter —, which stands for the sound /ɡ/, in Pitman shorthand.

gleeful

• adj. Exuberantly or triumphantly joyful.

happy

• adj. Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind,…
• adj. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
• adj. Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
• adj. Of acts, speech, etc.: appropriate, apt, felicitous.
• adj. (as a suffix to a noun) Favoring or inclined to use.
• adj. (rare) Of persons, especially when referring to their ability to express themselves (often followed by…
• n. preceded by the: happy people as a group.
• n. (informal, rare) A happy event, thing, person, etc.
• v. (intransitive) Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
• v. (transitive) Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.

jocund

• adj. Jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness.

jolly

• adj. Full of high and merry spirits; jovial.
• n. (Britain, dated) A pleasure trip or excursion.
• n. (slang, dated) A marine in the English navy.
• adv. (Britain, dated) very, extremely.
• v. (transitive) To amuse or divert.

jovial

• adj. (obsolete) Pertaining to Jove or Zeus; Jovian.
• adj. (obsolete) Pertaining to the planet Jupiter; Jovian.
• adj. (astrology, obsolete) Under the influence of the planet Jupiter (considered a source of happiness).
• adj. Merry; cheerful and good-humored.

joyful

• adj. Feeling or causing joy.

jubilant

• adj. In a state of elation.

merry

• adj. Jolly and full of high spirits.
• adj. Festive and full of fun and laughter.
• adj. Brisk.
• adj. Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight.
• adj. (euphemistic) drunk; tipsy.

mirthful

• adj. filled with mirth.

rapt

• adj. (not comparable, archaic) Snatched, taken away; abducted.
• adj. (not comparable) Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
• adj. (comparable) Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.
• adj. (comparable) Enthusiatic; ecstatic, elated, happy.
• v. (obsolete) To transport or ravish.
• v. (obsolete) To carry away by force.
• n. (obsolete) An ecstasy; a trance.
• n. (obsolete) Rapidity.

rapturous

• adj. The state or condition of being full of rapture.

rhapsodic

• adj. highly emotional; rapturous.
• adj. Of or relating to rhapsody; consisting of rhapsody.
• adj. (by extension) confused, unconnected.